Playing with Fire by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jupiter Press
Published: 2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

6

Cade rubbed the side of his face. He’d forgotten to keep his food on the left side of his mouth, and with one chew, he had a scorching pain slice through the right side of his head.

But that wasn’t the truly horrifying part.

“Hey, man,” His cousin Gavin waved as he pulled his truck into the parking lot of Heather’s office.

Cade rolled his orange peels into a napkin, before stuffing it in his lunch bag and tossing it in the truck. His eyes stung from exhaustion. It had been another long night of call after call at the fire department, with the last one being a three alarm, meaning a bad fire.

No one was injured, but the building was toast.

He loved his job, but after a shift like that, all he wanted to do was sleep, and if he didn’t get home soon, his body would realize it was eight in the morning.

“Thanks for coming.” He gave Gavin a slap on the shoulder.

“No sweat.”

He and Gavin, at times, were more like brothers than cousins, being they were only a few months apart. They grew up ten doors away from each other and gave their parents a fair amount of grief. Gavin also worked as a fireman for the same station, but he also helped run LockDown, a local security system company. How he managed both jobs, Cade would never know. Even when he’d been young and energetic, he valued his spare time. Of course, Cade had always been the kind of man to have a girlfriend.

Gavin, on the other hand, preferred to be single.

“I told her you wouldn’t charge to diagnosis the problem.” Cade rolled his neck. He wasn’t going into Heather’s office to be seen as a patient. He was going in as a friend, giving her a hand with a problem.

A quick jab of pain shot to his eyeball.

Heather’s office had been built inside an older, three-story house with dark blue paint and accented with white trim. A big tooth chair sat on the porch next to a sign that read: Dr. Heather Holbrook, DMD.

It didn’t matter how welcoming she made her office, it was still a chamber of pain.

He ignored the bolt of agony shooting to his brain.

“MiMi says you’ve got it bad for the good doctor.” Gavin glanced over his shoulder with a smirk as he opened the front door. “She also said you’ve been behaving like a toad.”

“Both statements are only partially true, but I’d appreciate it if you didn’t act like an asshole once we get inside.”

“I can’t promise anything.”

Cade rolled his eyes. There were no secrets in his family, and your entire life was fair game at any given time.

They stepped into the reception area. A cute blonde girl glanced up over her computer screen. “May I help you?” she asked.

“We’re here to check out the fire alarm. Dr. Holbrook is expecting us,” Cade said. Calling her doctor not only felt weird, but it reminded him of the constant dull-ache in his mouth.

He liked calling her Heather better.

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